Poetry Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 2. an almost rhyme, like Eminem does, like orange/four-inch/storage
  2. 3. when the first letters of words are the same close together, like “Larry laughed loudly at the llamas”
  3. 7. a comparison using like or as
  4. 8. phrases that appeal to the senses, like taste or smell or sight
  5. 10. when the sound of a word suggests its meaning-bravo if you can spell this one!
  6. 11. when you refer to a person, event, or another text to explain what something is like. Ex: your brother is a real Einstein!
  7. 12. the parts of a page of poetry that doesn’t have writing on it (two words)
Down
  1. 1. if a line of poetry does not end with punctuation
  2. 4. when you have the same words or phrases again and again
  3. 5. exaggeration
  4. 6. a rhyme that happens in the same line of a poem
  5. 7. the “paragraphs” in a poem
  6. 9. understatement
  7. 13. an expression that is unique to a culture, it means something different from its literal meaning